Workshop: Governing Minerals for Renewable Energy

Governing Minerals for Renewable Energy As part of the distinguished lecture series, The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and the Environmental Governance Lab hosted Dr. Stephen Lucas, Deputy Minister of Environment and Climate Chance for a full day conference on governing minerals for renewable energy and a sustainable future. The keynote address […]

The legislation is a false battleground allowing industry to vent their fears while making oversimplified claims and giving pipeline opponents false hope that the door to projects will be closed once and for all. At the end of May, the Senate accepted a committee report with an enormous package of amendments to Bill C-69, which […]

A new report by the Breakthrough National Center for Climate Restoration states that climate change will present an existential threat in the year 2050, modelling the possible damages to human civilization. EGL co-director Matthew Hoffmann joins Jennifer Hall on CBC News to comment on the report and climate change. Watch the interview here.

Canada’s carbon pricing system is being implemented as a way to help meet the country’s global emissions targets, but its future remains uncertain. Can industry assist in overcoming opposition? At the historic climate talks in Paris in 2015, countries agreed that large-scale transformation is required to avoid the worst effects of global temperature rise. […]

Day 1 at the Winter School. Photo credit: Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development UU In November, the Earth System Governance (ESG) Project hosted a Winter School at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The five-day Winter School took place in advance of the ESG Conference (read Emma Lecavalier’s summary of the conference here). The School provided an opportunity […]